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About The Mill City enterprise. (Mill City, Or.) 1949-1998 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 1, 1951)
November 1, 1951 g—THE MILL CITY ENTERPRISE Mill Ciiy Hi-Liles Shuffleboard Season MILL CITY Frostbite Spared Marines in Korea Valley were Sunday dinner guests at By GABY PETERSON n II a_______ I A___ the Ike Myers home. Mrs. Vesta Golden, Mrs. James The Timberwolves smaltzed the Jay- Recent callers at the Steve Dark I Poole Jr. and Mrs. Bob Hinz were in vees of Sweet Home high Thursday home were Mr. and Mrs. Russell Mc By ELSIE MYERS U. S. Marines fighting in Korea A shuffleboard tourney is now in I Salem, Monday on a purchasing trip Laughlin, Salem, and Mr. Bob Lucas, , night by a score of 32 to 12. Bob will not suffer a repetition of frost The Mehama Local of the Farmers the formative stage. Present plans f 0T equipment for Hinz Coffee Shop, Baltimore led the scoring attack with Portland. bite that was such a crippling enemy Union met in regular session, Friday i three touchdowns, going one, thirty, call for 10 taverns entering teams for | Mr #nd Mrg Mehjn LaVine and evening, with the new president, I Mrs. Bill Bickett and daughter were and forty yards for TD’s in that order. \ .if2mLe!!.,‘^,„O.n.-,,heK*.aX^ W>y8’ Sharon and Mr. and Mrs. Jack Scott in last winter’s campaign, according visitors over the weekend at the home to word received here from Washing Luther Stout, presiding. It being of her sister and brother-in-law, Mr. Roy Podrabsky scored an additional Action starts ’Tuesday, Nov. 6. spent the week-end at the home of ton. D. C. by Colonel Harvey S. Wal Each tavern will have one complete social night the regular order of and Mrs. Roger Kindred in Mill City. pair of Touchdowns, moving thirty LaVine’s sister, Mrs. Knute Knutson seth, Director, 13th Marine Corps team ar* a limited number of subs. business was dispensed with. An in Mr. Bickett is elk hunting. ' [ of Seattle, Wash. and fifty yards, while Lyle Fleetwood Reserve District. Taverns joining up for the shuffle teresting educational film and also a Mr. and Mrs. Steve Dark were scored the sixth TD with a gallop of board snort are Rendezvous and Fred ! John Grant, one of the two U. S. Colonel Walseth said "guinea pig” comic strip were shown by M. J. | among those attending the chamber fifty yards on a naked (pardon the in the Philippine Davies, Stayton; Meander Inn, Mill citizens ambushed Martin of the Santiam Co-op. Re i banquet and meeting in Sublimity, word) reverse. Marine Corps officers have tested Denny Marttala City Tavern and Les’ Tavern, Mill Jast-Week, was a cousin of successfully a new insulated rubber freshments were served at the close Wednesday night. kicked the conversions. The Timber- City; Ruby and Johnny Montgomery Melvin LaVine. hoot at temperatures as low as 45 of the meeting. Mrs. Louise Ray returned to her 1 wolves picked a cold night to get hot George Stewart reports that his son, degrees below zero. Visitors included Mr. George Tate, home, Sunday, from Stayton where as they walked away with an easy tavern and Richards Tavern,’Gates; Mr. George Zimmerman, Sublimity; she had been since Thursday assisting victory before a small but elated the Maples Tavern, Niagara; Detroit Jerry, is now in Europe on the coast Replacing the shoe-pac—the hither Mr. and Mrs. M. J. Martin and Mr. in the care of her father, Mr. Ben crowd. Pat Henry and his Golden Tavern and Cedars Tavern, Detroit. i of France with the U. S. Army. to best footgear for cold weather in Two teams of work horses are Running accounts will be given of 1 and Mrs. Paul Pietrok and family, Darby. Mr. Darby who has been suf horse performed a halftime, with Pat sulation, similar to a thermos bottle. arousing the anger of North River fjtayton. It is the result of reseach by the the beautiful palimino shuffleboard tourney progress. High Road residents. fering from a lung ailment was moved sending These four fine lights of the play will be recorded. Marine Corps, Army and Navy, and Mrs. Carl Longnecker recently re- to the Salem Memorial hospital, Sun through a series of twenty-five tricks. \ horses persist in using the lawns of has been acclaimed by experts in <eived word from her son, Bob Van day, for observation and treatment. The Teen Canteen frolicked in the : property owners as a pasture. The Mr. and Mrs. Carl Longnecker and Mill City high school recreation room at Philomath. Prospects for basket- ! owner of these horses runs the risk Arctic exploration as the best protec Eaton, of a harrowing experience he had recently gone through. Bob who ' Billy spent the weekend at the home Saturday night. As a prelude to the ball, as only one senior was on the of their being turned into horse meat tion against wet-cold such as found is in the navy and stationed at Sasro, of Mrs. Longnecker’s parents, Mr. evening’s festivities, a potluck dinner 1950-51 team, and sonie other players in these times of high-priced beef! , in Korea. Japan, was driving a 20 ton deisel and Mrs. Paul Payton, of Kaiser. was held. Potluck—that’s a way of have since transfered here. “Not only have new supplies been Maps of Mill City are available at truck hauling troops when they were Saturday night they attended the saying "Bring your pot and see what the Mill City theatre, compliments of sent O’ Korea, but last winter s equip- struck by a typhoon. The storm was Fireman’s Benefit ball at Kaiser. First nient has been renovated and cleaned luck you have getting it back,” After The Christian graces are like per Robert Veness, proprietor, so fierce, it took them 1 and one half Mrs. Bill Bickett and Mrs. Carl the gay evening, the impressionable to provide ample clothing to keep our fumes, and the more they are pressed come, first served. hours to come six and one half miles. Longnecker spent the day, Monday, minds of the teenagers wandered over the sweeter they smell. — Francis fighting men warm,” Colonel Walseth A Japanese barge in the bay capsized shopping in Salem. to the Mill City theatre to see the Beaumont. It’s Your Newspaper—Subscribe Now said. trapping a Japanese woman and two horror of horrors, “The Thing’. Bob children. After clinging on for i Veness put on a short exhibition of twelve hours when the barge was I (?) black magic before retiring in righted the woman held on but the favor of “The Thing”. children perished. Bob is a former The Junior class is throwing a hard- ftudent. of the Gates high school. times party tonight with the student Mr. and Mrs. E. Dietz and family of body invited. The Congress should Salem, accompanied by Mr. Dietz’s I Meteorologists can determine what investigate the juniors—maybe they father, Mr. Gene Dietz, were recent the weather will be like during a think the government is on the rocks, given period in the future by study Subversives, eh? Everyone is to callers at the Steve Dark home, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Sprague, ing the growth rings of trees. come dressed as (ugh) hoboes, Now Salem, who recently returned from a Tree rings give these scientists they think they can call the whole trip east, spent the day, Sunday, at clues to weather cycles because they student body a bunch of bums. Hah! their home on the Little North Fork. record accurately the wet and dry We’ll sue. Mr. and Mrs. Albert Julian of Fox years of the past centuries. From The GAA is going to throw a sur this information weather students are prise party for the football team a ! able to tel) fairly close when we will week from tonight—Friday. I don’t tv WHY HOT BUY have dry cycles and wet cycles in the know, but that’s about what they 3 future. should do, heave it someplace. The This is important in planning all stupids—er, ah, students are invited human endeavors because weather to this’n also. Touche, tally ho, then, sir, and effects everything man does, as wit- ness the current dry year which has there’ll be another one of these next greatly curtailed man’s activities a- week. OPEN SATURDAYS Phone 1815, Mill City Russell Kelly, Manager Basketball is almost upon us, as jaannHnnnnBBBnnnnnHnunnuHD long the Pacific Coast. * All important historic events since the Timberwolves this wee» wind up 1 Tax Consultant Auditor the discovery of the Columbia river the 1951 gridiron season with a game L' I by Captain Gray in 1792 are charted in the annual rings of thousands of great Douglas firs and W’est Coast PUBLIC ACCOUNTANT hemlocks of this western country now being harvested in western Oregon Bookkeeping, Accounting and and Washington. More than a fourth Tax Service of the nation’s wood products comes Railroad workers are represented by 23 standard from these forests in the form of lum Corner 3rd 4 Marion ber, pulp, plywood, poles and piling, STAYTON. ORE. unions. By mutual agreement, 20 of these unions—com doors, shingles, shakes and hundreds of items. Telephone till P.O. Bov 1321 prising about 1,200 OOO men, or more than 90%—are Many Douglas firs of this region BmHnnHBnnnnnnnnnnnHanHnrm were in their prime when John Jacob working under wages and rules agreed to by them and Astor in 1811 founded the community the railroads. But leaders of three unions—with only at the mouth of the Columbia which now bears his name, according to W. about 130,000 men, or less than 10%—still refuse, after D. Hagenstein, forest engineer for the Forest Conservation Committee more than a year of negotiations, to accept similar of Pacific Northwest Forest Indus wage and rules agreements. These are even more tries. Hagenstein says millions of acres of West Coast forests were at their favorable than the terms recommended by the Emer prime when Dr. John McLoughlin, famed Hudson’s Bay factor, cut the gency Board appointed by the President. first lumber at Fort Vancouver in 1827. Timber out here was prime Yes, It certainly seems to be finally about time that the leaders off the three unions stop their when Pope & Talbot installed the BEFORE BUYING SHOES first steam-powered sawmill on Puget delaying tactics—their quibbling. But the leaders of the Brotherhood off Locomotive Engineers, SEE THE MASON LINE Sound at Port Gamble in 1849, Good years and bad years, dry the Brotherhood off Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen, and the Order off Railway Conductors years and wet years are all recorded continue to refuse. They continue a course off dillying and dallying. It is definitely time to Hagenstein said. Stories of fires are told. Trees don’t recognize business cycles, the forester said, but they re CHARLES I'MPIIRESS, Prop. cord them in their rings because Open 7 AM. to 7 P.M. prosperous years are generally good farm crop years when there has been lots of rain. ELKHORN Rolls Around Again Weather Forecast By Growth Rings 1 Complete Supply of All Your Building Needs . . 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Get Lydia Pinkham's Com pound or new. improved Tab lets with added iron (trial size only 59« >. Start taking Lydia Pinkham'» today! END THIS QUIBBLING ! On June 15, 1950, an Emergency Board appointed bv the President under the terms of the Railway Labor Act—an Act largely fathered by the unions themselves — made its recommendations on certain wage and working conditions ("rules" in railroad language) which had been in dis pute between employes and the railroads. More Than 90% of Employes Accept Since then, terms equal to or better than the Board «‘commendations have been accepted by about 1,200,000 railroad em ployes more than 90% of the total of all workers. They ar»- represented by 20 of the 23 standard railroad unions. Less Than 10% Refuse But three unions—with about 130,000 men, or leas than 10% of the total—have refused to accept, even after months of negotiations. These three unions are the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen ami Enginemen. and the Order of Railway Conductors. These are three of the so- called ’’operating” unions. Already the highest paid men in the industry, their leaders demand still further advantages over other workers. In all. there are about 270,000 operating employes. But not all of them, by anv means, are represented by BLE. BLF&E, or ORC. As a matter of fact, less than half—132.000 to be exact—are in these three unions. More than half—about 140,000—are in other unions, principally the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen. What makes the whole situation so hard to understand is that these 140.000 op erating employes are working under wages and rules which the leaders of the other 130,000 say they cannot agree to. What Do the Railroads Offer? They offer these three unions the same settlement which was contained ina Mem orandum of Agreement signed at the White House on December 21, 1950, by four brotherhoods and the railroads. Later these brotherhoixis sought to repudiate this agreement But on May 25, 1951. the Brotherliood of Railroad Trainmen signed a complete agreement carrying out the principles of the Memorandum Agreement of December 21. They have been working under this agreement since May 25. What About Wages? Under the terms of the agreement, yard engineers, firemen and conductors would now be receiving a wage increase of $.34 an hour ($2.72 a day) and road engineers, firemen and conductors would now be re ceiving an increase of 19H cents an hour ($1.56 per day). Large sums of retroactive pay have already accrued and if the agree ment is carried out, will be paid promptly. W hat About “Cost of Uving" Increases? The White House Agreement includes an "escalator” clause under which wages will be geared to changes in the Government’s cost-of-living index. Two such increases — April and July, 1951 — havealreadv been paid to the 90% of railroad employes cov ered by signed agreements. What About the 40-Hour Week? The White House Agreement calls for the establishment of the 40-hour week in prin ciple, for employes in yard service. The employes can have it any time after Jan uary- 1, 1952. provided the manpower sit uation is such that the railroads can get enough men to perform the work with reasonable regularity at straight time rates. If the parties do not agree on the auestion of availability of manpower, the White House Agreement provides arbitra tion by a referee appointed by the President. W hat Else Do the I nion Leaders Demand? The continued quibbling of the leaders of the three unions has to do principally with rules changes, which have already been agreed to by the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen. Of these, the principal one seems to be that having to do with so- called "interdivisional service”—runs which take in two or more seniority dis tricts. The union leaders would bar progress and efficiency in the industry, and better service to the public, by maintaining a situation where they can arbitrarily stop a railroad from establishing such inter divisional runs. The carriers propose that if a railroad wishes to set up an inter divisional run, the railroad and the unions should try to agree on such run and the conditions which should surround its es tablishment, and if the railroad and the unions can’t agree, the matter will be sub mitted to arbitration. But the three union leaders still refuse. Rules Can Be Arbitrated The railroads have not only offered these three unions the same rules agreed to by the BRT and covered by the White House Agreement, but have even agreed to sub mit such rules to arbitration. The Industry Pattern Is Fixed With the pattern so firmly established in the railroad industry, it seems fair to sug gest that the leaders of BLE, BLF&E, and ORC stop their quibbling and take action to make the railroad labor picture 100% complete. Certainly today s eco nomic and international situation calls for a united front. And certainly no good rea son has been advanced whv these three unions should be preferred over all other railroad employes. CASYi *N We are publishing this and other advertisements to talk to you at first hand about matters which are important to every body.